Tag: Moshenska

  • Milton and Galileo: Affinities between art and science

    Milton and Galileo: Affinities between art and science

    I don’t know much about John Milton and Galileo Galilei. However, I have stood beside Milton’s Mulberry tree at Christ’s College, Cambridge and beside Galileo’s chair and lectern at the University of Padua – and felt some affinity with the poet and the scientist. I didn’t know though that there was actually a connection between Milton…